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Synthetic biology is a field of science that involves redesigning organisms for useful purposes by engineering them to have new abilities.
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Frequently Asked Questions for IGVF RFAs: RFA-HG-20-043, RFA-HG-20-044, RFA-HG-20-045, RFA-HG-20-046, RFA-HG-20-047
… Can you explain more about the variant/element/phenotype catalog and how it will be developed? The development of this catalog will be a consortium effort. The Modeling Projects … Centers will co-lead a collaboration to develop this catalog. Other projects and centers, including the DACC, will …
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An ancient, sexually transmitted dog cancer may provide insights into human cancers because of the similarities in the dog and human immune systems.
… Brian Davis, Ph.D, and colleagues, built a comprehensive catalog of genetic variation of healthy dogs based on the … are continuing to accumulate dog genomes for their catalog, and plan further studies on CTVT, including on dog …
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Researchers have now identified and catalogued more species - nearly 200 new bacteria and thousands of viruses - that reside on the human skin than has ever been possible, largely due to advances in bioinformatics and laboratory techniques.
… most abundant on human skin. The results appear in a new catalog, the Skin Microbial Genome Collection (SMGC), … the collaborative study. According to researchers, the new catalog is remarkable in its breadth, bringing to light an …
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On January 25, 2023, the National Human Genome Research Institute will hold a roundtable on social and behavioral genomics.
… within and between families from a 3-million-person GWAS of educational attainment” by the Social Science Genetic …
Research Funding
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Pilot Project launched in September 2003 to identify all functional elements in the human genome sequence.
… is available through Covance Research Products Inc. (Catalog #MMS-126R) and the TAFII250 antibody is available through Santa Cruz Biotechnology ( Catalog #SC-735 ). The third common antibody recognizes … cells and is available through Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Catalog #SC-345). An antibody against a histone modification …
Policy Issues
Scientific institutions are developing recommendations to support the responsible use of human gene-editing research.
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Genomics helps us understand evolution and protect our biological ecosystems.
… samples of DNA, scientists perform computer analyses to catalog all the living things that are present based on …
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Funding to advance understanding of RNA biology and development of RNA-based technologies
… to allow researchers to more completely study and catalog RNA and its modifications. … NIH partners with …
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Dr. Ajay Pillai is a program director in the Division of Genome Sciences at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
… Cells), that aims in the long-term to develop a consistent catalog molecular and cellular phenotypes for null alleles …